lighttpd 1.4.13 review

lighttpd is a secure, fast, compliant, and very flexible Web server which has been optimized for high-performance environments. li

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 779K Developer: lighttpd Team

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lighttpd is a secure, fast, compliant, and very flexible Web server which has been optimized for high-performance environments.

lighttpd has a very low memory footprint compared to other Web servers, and it takes care of CPU load. lighttpd has an advanced feature set that includes FastCGI (load balanced), CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting, SSL, and much more.

Here are some key features of "lighttpd":
Advanced Features:

virtual hosts
virtual directory listings
URL-Rewriting, HTTP-Redirects
automatic expiration of files
Large File Support (64bit fileoffsets)
Ranges (start-end, start-, -end, multiple ranges)
on-the-fly output-compression with transparent caching
deflate, gzip, bzip2
authentication
basic, digest
backends: plain files, htpasswd, htdigest, ldap
fast and secure application controlled downloads
Server Side Includes
User Tracking
FastCGI, CGI, SSI

PHP-Support:

same speed as or faster than apache + mod_php4
includes a utility to spawn FastCGI processes (neccesary for PHP 4.3.x)
via FastCGI and CGI interface
support Code Caches like Turckmm, APC or eaccelarator
load-balanced FastCGI
(one webserver distibutes request to multiple PHP-servers via FastCGI)

Security features:

chroot(), set UID, set GID
protecting docroot
strict HTTP-header parsing

Platforms

Releases of lighttpd are built regulary for at least the following platforms

Linux (binary packages for FC3, SuSE, Debian, Gentoo, PLD-Linux, OpenWRT)
*BSD (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, MacOS X)
SGI IRIX
Windows (Cygwin)

while it is known to compile cleanly on

Solaris
AIX

and various other POSIX compatible OSes.